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Podcast
HSJ Podcast: Is it time to scrap foundation trusts?
Could foundation trusts be hindering the success of integrated care systems – and is it time to do away with them? One foundation trust chair thinks so and we discuss the merits of the idea on the show this week.
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HSJ Local
BMA ‘rate card’ wipes out elective recovery gains, claims trust
A struggling acute trust says its failure to hit its elective care targets is directly linked to doctors’ demanding overtime rates in line with the British Medical Association’s new rate cards, as national tensions around the issue intensify.
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News
Dates for three-day junior doctors strike announced
Thousands of junior doctors will walk out from 13 March until the morning of 16 March, the British Medical Association has announced.
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Podcast
HSJ Podcast: Julian Hartley on collaboration, reform and why he became NHS Providers’ CEO
Fresh from starting work as NHS Providers’ new chief executive, Sir Julian Hartley joins HSJ Health Check to talk about collaboration, strikes, reform and more.
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Expert Briefing
Recovery Watch: Overtime pay, not ‘insourcing’, is NHS chiefs’ big elective headache
Recovering services from the covid crisis is the big task for NHS leaders for the foreseeable future. The Recovery Watch newsletter tracks prospects and progress. This week by HSJ bureau chief and performance lead James Illman.
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News
Pay rises should not exceed 3.5pc next year, warns government
Giving NHS staff a pay rise of more than 3.5 per cent next year would mean cuts to the NHS’s non-pay budget or an increase in unsustainable borrowing, the government has claimed.
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News
Nurses pause strike action as ministers agree pay talks
The Royal College of Nursing has agreed to pause planned strike action as they enter pay talks with the government.
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News
Junior doctors plan 72-hour ‘full walkout’
Junior doctors across England are set to go on strike for 72 hours next month in a major escalation in unions’ dispute with the government over pay.
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News
More trusts vote to strike
Staff at another four ambulance services have voted to take strike action in the ongoing dispute over pay, the union Unison has announced.
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News
Nurses to walk out of emergency departments for 48 hours
Nurses will walk out of emergency departments, intensive care units and cancer care services for the first time in the next wave of strike action.
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News
Striking ambulance staff must cover all ‘emergency’ calls, say ministers
Ambulance staff will need to respond to category 2 calls during strike action under new government proposals.
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HSJ Local
Details of 14,000 salaries shared by mistake
A spreadsheet containing the personal information of nearly 14,000 staff, including their salaries, has been mistakenly emailed to hundreds of people at a major trust, HSJ has learned.
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News
Revealed: First trust CEO to receive £300,000 base salary
Many of the highest paid trust chiefs now have two executive roles, including the first permanent NHS CEO to be paid a base salary of more than £300,000 a year, HSJ analysis reveals.
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Podcast
HSJ Podcast: A game changer for length of stay?
The debate over single patient rooms has raged for many years, but emerging news from Liverpool’s new hospital suggests it could be a game-changer for cutting patients’ length of stay. We discuss the impact of the much-maligned city trust’s new hospital on patient flow.
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News
‘Unauthorised payoffs’ made to senior staff at six NHS organisations
NHS England has been criticised by national auditors after a spate of unauthorised payoffs to departing commissioning staff, and warned that the move to integrated care boards may bring more.
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News
New strikes planned across five ambulance trusts
The major ambulance service union, Unison, has announced a further strike date, with ten days’ notice.
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News
Consultants asked: ‘Are you prepared to strike?’
Consultants across England will be asked if they would be willing to take industrial action, the British Medical Association has announced.
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News
BMA issues ‘unaffordable’ medical locum rate card
The British Medical Association has issued a locum pay rate card for junior doctors, which trust bosses have described as ‘unaffordable’ and ‘unilateral’.
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News
Government delays ‘partial retirement’ pension reform
Ministers have been accused of scoring a ‘massive own goal’ by delaying a proposed NHS pension reform – seeking to reduce tax hits on high-earners – by six months.
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Podcast
HSJ Podcast: The staff the NHS forgot
An HSJ Investigation has revealed trusts are denying staff employed by their wholly owned subsidiary companies the pay and conditions offered to other staff. We discuss why this forgotten group of the workforce are missing out.